Telling people you have HIV news from aidsmap

Data from the last ten years of the Australian Gay Community
Periodic Surveys shows a steady decline in consistent condom use, with more gay
men attempting to minimise their risk by serosorting or by having an
undetectable viral load. ...

In an era of widespread HIV treatment and undetectable viral load, stigma remains a persistent feature in the lives of almost half of people living with diagnosed HIV in the UK, according to findings from The ...

Early initiation
of antiretroviral therapy (ART) does not have negative social consequences,
investigators report in the online edition of AIDS. Research involving patients in Côte d’Ivoire showed that
there were no differences in key social indicators such as relationship ...

Partner notification programmes,
offering HIV testing to the sexual partners of people newly diagnosed with HIV,
have rarely been implemented in African countries, but can be highly effective
there, studies presented to the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic
Infections (CROI ...

A programme of home visits, partner education and HIV
testing for couples in Kenya was able to double the proportion of men who
tested during their partner’s pregnancy, Carey Farquhar of the University of
Washington told the Conference
on Retroviruses and ...

A large survey conducted through gay dating sites and Facebook in
Australia has found that previous surveys may have overestimated the proportion
of gay men who are in emotionally committed relationships, and in monogamous
ones. Furthermore it found that ...

The accounts of
a group of gay men living with HIV in Dublin, most of whom rarely, if ever,
disclose their HIV status to casual sexual partners, starkly reveal the extent
of HIV stigma within the gay community, according ...

A greater understanding of the impact of HIV treatment on
prevention is changing the experience of being in a relationship with a partner
of a different HIV status, according to a qualitative Australian study
published last week in the ...

Almost half of American gay men recruited to a survey via
advertising on a major mobile phone dating app say that at least one potential sexual partner has said that
he was taking PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis), and even ...

Achieving an
undetectable viral load is a key milestone in the period after diagnosis with
HIV, qualitative interviews with Canadian gay men suggest. Men incorporated
knowledge of their own undetectable status into their identities as
HIV-positive gay men and their ...

Grindr, a popular app for gay and bisexual men, announced today the addition of optional HIV-related fields in user profiles, such as HIV status (including undetectable), last HIV test date, and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use.

Up to three quarters of people living with HIV suffer from pain. The Conversation Africa spoke to Antonia Wadley about research that measured activity and resilience among people living with HIV and pain.

"iTech will be home to six studies with each study using technology to address a barrier to the HIV care continuum,” said Hightow-Weidman. “For youth at risk of becoming infected with HIV, we will develop apps that list HIV testing sites and medical providers who prescribe pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP to prevent HIV. For youth who test positive for the virus, we will develop electronic health interventions to engage them in care and improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy.”

28 September 2016 | University of North Carolina Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases

At this year’s Edinburgh fringe the lines between comedy, therapy and healing have been smudged – explicitly so in Glaswegian comic Scott Agnew’s show. It traces Agnew’s sex life and his being diagnosed as HIV positive last year.

PrEP is changing the landscape of sex parties and other group sex events, helping to break down barriers between people who are positive and negative—and helping people who are HIV-negative stay that way.

Many people debate about whether they should reveal their HIV status to people at work—and may wonder about the potential benefits, and the potential downsides, of disclosing. Here’s a few things to consider if you’re thinking about coming out to work colleagues as HIV-positive.

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